Miromaa Benefits

The best way to describe some of the benefits of using Miromaa can best be explained in relation to the various users:

Language Worker

Language worker can also be usually defined as someone who identifies as a Indigenous person who is working in some role in either maintaining, preserving or disseminating a traditional language, their level of skills and knowledge could also identify them as a Language Speaker, Language Expert or as a Language Activist, so the term 'Language Worker' is very broad and general in its meaning.

So for any Indigenous person in a similar role Miromaa can benefit you with the following:

Easy to use with a minimal learning curve.

It empowers users in using a user friendly program which would not normally be possible.

Gives you the ability to be involved in all aspects of language activity.

Gather all written, audio and video evidence of language in one place.

It provides a secure community learning environment for intermediate to advanced users.

Staff become more excited as they are now able to be more involved with all aspects of the language activities.

Digitally archive all of your sources of language evidence in a manner never seen before

Free through sponsorship program

Linguist, Researcher and Academic

Even if you fall in this area there are a lack of user friendly computer programs available, the excellent and very powerful Shoebox, Toolbox and Lexique Pro programs still have a fairly extensive learning curve to master the programs properly. Miromaa is in no way intending to replace these programs, far from it, its intention is to compliment these programs and we have ensured this by making sure that Miromaa can export and import from these programs with you having full control of the process. Miromaa also handles multimedia like no other program, it stores all evidence of audio and video of language in a multitude of formats. One of the most important factors that Miromaa can help you with is that it is also very user friendly for language workers and centres to use, this means that skills transfer from yourself to them can be much better regarded as these people have good tools to support your own work and it is a good method for keeping community involved with your work. This will ensure that your good work has a very strong chance of continuing and growing in todays ever changing world.

Miromaa can benefit a linguist, researcher or academic with the following:

User friendly linguistic area

Import / Export from standard format marker text files

Great interface and fields for field work

Please refer to the extensive feature list of Miromaa to understand it better.

Unfortunately it does not run in the MAC OS X environment, you would have to run it via BootCamp or Parallels.